Drawing Monsters & Heroes for Film & Comics

A behind-the-scenes look at the world of film conceptual art with a focus on designing creatures for action films. This is not just a "how to" book, but also an autobiographic career retrospective from Kerry Gammill, filled with art and anecdotes about his years at Marvel, DC and Hollywood.

After a noteworthy career with Superman, Indiana Jones and Deadly Foes of Spiderman, the work of well-known comic-book artist Kerry Gammill mysteriously disappeared from the pages of Superman and X-Men. This volume reveals Gammill''s exodus was to fulfil another life-long desire, to work on monster films. Gammill has been working as a conceptual artist on film and television projects which include Stephen King''s Storm of the Century TV mini-series, Virus (1999), Species II (1998), Can of Worms (TV 1999), Dean Koontz''s Phantoms (1998), Stargate SG-1 TV series, and The (new) Outer Limits; TV series. In this volume Gammill takes us behind the scenes on the very important but little-known world of film conceptual art with a focus on designing creatures for action films. This is not just a how-to book, but also Gammill''s autobiographic career retrospective, filled with art and anecdotes about his years at Marvel, DC and Hollywood.